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A head-to-head analysis comparing the environmental impacts of six power generation sources found that while no electricity fuel is benign, renewable resources such as wind and solar present a tiny fraction of the environmental downsides of coal and natural gas.

The Trump administration's bid to limit which wetlands and streams are covered by the Clean Water Act is backed by an analysis that assumes many states will boost regulations as federal oversight retreats. But state regulators and environmental experts say closing that gap will be all but impossible.

The Trump administration's bid to limit which wetlands and streams are covered by the Clean Water Act is backed by an analysis that assumes many states will boost regulations as federal oversight retreats. But state regulators and environmental experts say closing that gap will be all but impossible.